Type-containing channel.



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Patented Aug. 8, I899.

TYPE CONTAINING CHANNEL.

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UNITED STATES v PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON AND ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOlV, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-CONTAINING CHANNEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,831, dated August 8, 1899.

Application filed January 18, 1899. Serial No. 702,519. (No model.)

To all u'hmlt if; men/y cancer/t:

Be it known that we, LoUIs KOSSUTH J OHN- SON and ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements inType- Containing Channels, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to channels used for the purpose of receiving and retaining types and presenting them in convenient form for use when required either in setting or dis-' tributing apparatus or for storage when not in use.

The object is to produce a simple, cheap, and edective channel that shall be standard in character and at the same time adaptable to types of different widths, so that-a number of different fonts of type may beused in connection with a single series of channels.

Our invention consists, essentially, of two trough-shapedplates fitting together With their concave surfaces opposed to each other, said plates or side walls being coupled together adj ustably by means of screws, substantially as hereinafter set forth.

Incidentally our invention also includes the use of washers or spacers of peculiar construction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an isometrical perspective of the two halves of our improved channel separated; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section upon plane of line 2 2, Fig. 4.; Fig. 3, an elevation of the inner side of one of the trough-shaped plates; Figs. at and 5,elevations of opposite sides of the channel; Fig. 6, an edge view of the same; Fig. 7, a view upon an enlarged scale,showinga crosssecfion of the channel-plates and spacers and thecouplingscrews in elevation. Fig. 8 is an end view of the plates apart; Fig. 9, an end view of the channel, showing it accommodating one of the larger sizes of type; Fig. 10, a similar view showing the channel arranged for the smaller width of type; Fig. 11, a view similar to Fig. 7, but showing the couplingscrews reversed to lock the parts; Fig. 12, a plan of one of the spacers. Figs. 13 and 14 show modifications of washers shown in Fig.

12. Fig. 15 illustrates a modification in which a plain side plate is used in connection with a deep trough-plate.

The channel O consists of two elongated trough-shaped plates 0 C the flanges c c of which create, relatively, the type-space between the plates when the latter are united face to face. These trough-shaped plates are comparatively cheap and simple to manufacture, since they can be conveniently manipulated and finished, and when united with the flanges c c in contact with each other are designed to afford a channel of minimum width-that is, one adapted to the smallest width of type to be used. Thus formed they may be secured permanently together by any suitable mechanical expedient; but we prefer to secure them together by means which will admit of their adjustment with relation to each other so that they may be adapted to receive types of greater than minimum width. This is accomplished in the most simple and satisfactory manner by the use of screws S,

passing through the opposed flanges c 0 by which the two trough-shaped plates O O are not only united, but by which they may be held apart a prescribed distance, if desired, to widen the type-channel. Thus in Fig. 10 the plates 0 O are shown as brought together, the flanges c c abutting against each other and the type-channel being adapted for the reception and control of the minimum size of type, while in Figs. 2, 6, 7, 9, and 11 the flanges c c are separated by spacers p of a thickness corresponding to the increased width of the type to be accommodated in the channel. These spacers p are of special construction, being formed with the opening 19, which admits of their being placed in position embracing a coupling-screw S without the removal of the screw that is to say, the plates may be separated by turning the screws to admit the spacers p, the latter passed in between the flanges c c and around the screws and the screws then tightened to bind the flanges against the spacers.

Steadying-pins a may be employed in conjunction with the coupling-screws S for the purpose of effecting and preserving the parallel relation of the plates. It will be observed that when the plates are separated for the accommodation of all but the smallest ICO i'vidth of type a space 1) is left between the opposed flanges, through which space I) the faces of heels of the types in the channel will be visib1ean advantage in the practical use of the channel, especially when in the settercase.

What We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A type-channel composed of two opposed trough-shaped plates secured together, substantially as set forth.

2. Atype-channel composed of two opposed trough shaped plates secured together by means which admit of their adjustment With relation to each other, for the purpose and substantially in the manner described.

3. In a type-containing channel substantially such as described the combination .of the plates 0', 0 formed with the flanges c, 0 and the coupling-screws S, for the purpose and substantially in the manner described.

4.-In a type-containing channel substantially such as described, the combination of the plates C, 0 formed with the flanges 0', 0 the coupling-screws S, and the spacers p, for the purpose and substantially in the manner described.

5. In a type-containing channel substan tially such as described the combination of the plates 0, C formed with the flanges c, 0 the coupling-screws S, and the spacers 19, formed with the openings 19, for the purpose set forth.

6. In a type-containing channel substantially such as described, the combination of the plates C, 0 formed with the flanges c, 0 and with the steadying-pins a, and the coupling-screws S, the whole arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON. ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW. Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. HIATT. 

